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So much for the really huge changes, just a few subtle ones:

2 p.m. hour, Making Money with Charles Payne

Taking over the timeslot occupied by Trish Regan and the very popular Intelligence Report (which had a mostly darker aqua background), his studio is the same one that was used in the early 2010's--mostly by Stuart Varney and an earlier iteration for one of the morning shows.

3 p.m. hour, Liz Claman then introduced us to "The C.P. Effect" .
Get used to it, my online friends.
Otherwise, there were three major changes to Liz's Countdown to the Closing Bell worth noting:

The revised open features a ticking clock (new) and instead of three computerized images of Liz, we only see one and the posed photograph when she was dressed in aqua blue from the chest up taken a few years back.
The open lasted about two seconds longer as the old open--eight seconds where in years past, it was around six seconds.

The title sequence is bolder and it features two arrows pointing in opposite directions--instead of the constant sliding wheel popping at us coming out of commercial breaks.

The other change is a more subtle one.
Each time you saw an image of a reporter either at the NYSE, the CBOT, or some author, CEO, concerned citizen via satellite--the background featuring individual stock information was always in navy blue in the upper left corner. The constant image of a wheel appeared in dark red with a black background.
Now, it appears as a more lighter aqua blue--but thankfully, it isn't too blinding for the eyes (at least, not yet). The slightly darker blue is in the lower right corner.

4 p.m. hour, After The Bell with Melissa Francis and Connell McShane:
New techno beat music replaced the old drab on Monday, but the constant ticking sounds heard since 2010 resurfaced starting on Tuesday.
They definitely have different opening graphics, and their studio is in the area where FBN:am got its' start in 2015.

Also, instead of the italics seen with a wine red background, it is firm capital letters against a rich blue background. Their stock portfolio images are still in darker blue.

Bottom line--the big changes of splashy new graphics for the stock tickers never came, nor any big studio change for our always fun to look at and very interesting listen in Liz Claman.
At the very least, Liz's show is still #1 in the business ratings--far outdistancing Maria Bartiromo's former channel in CNBC and wher Trish Regan gained her first nationwide career move at Bloomberg.

As for Liz's former longstanding partner since the beginning of the channel itself--David Asman can be seen on a second version of Bulls & Bears (Fox News ran a separate version inbetween the first version on FBN to the present day).

Unlike the first version where it was fun times every minute, here are a few links on YouTube from back in the day.
When you type in the Search box--Fox Business Bulls and Bears, you get this series of results:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bulls+and+bears+fox+business
Scroll down a few clips and you should find some segments from 2008 and 2011.

When you click on the Filter and Upload Date options:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bulls+and+bears+fox+business&sp=CAI%253D)...more segments from back in the day appear.

That show airs one hour later at 5, instead of the old time slot at 4. Elizabeth MacDonald's The Evening Edit takes over Charles Payne's old time slot at 6.

At least with Trish's new primetime show--you can always enjoy the old ATB set in a slightly darker state. Looks a lot different and not as busy as it used to be when the markets close.

Bottom line, I guess we will have to get used to this until the day FBN decides to move to another place somewhere in New York.

I guess it looks like Jamie Colby quit FBN. Patti Anne Brown left FNC in February. So it is safe to assume that Uma Pemmaraju left, the fox family, between end of 2016 and in 2017. Is Jackie Ibanez around? Probably overnights if still there. What about Lea Gabrielle? Some rumor she was leaving to work with Trump's adminsitration I think. She is never on and for some reason FBN AM used her as fill in after a while instead of F&F 1st.
My take away from the changes is that Trish basically took the old Megyn Kelly format and took over the show. So no more business talk but all politics and news. The set is similiar. Kennedy just moved an hour and the set and format is still the same. I don't get the Bulls and Bears stuff though. It was a 30 minute weekly program on a business block FNC killed off for more Cavuto that nobody asked for. Why bring it back two years later and make it an hour? Odd move. What about other shows on that two hour Business Block? All I know is that they chose the program with the only business host who never was with a daily show on FBN Brenda Buttner. She passed on so the first show was a tribute to her. I guess Eric Shawn took it over after Brenda died till it was cancelled with the rest of the block. Then you have Payne's show...whatever went on with Scottie Nell Hughes they goofed up his show. It used to have a sitout area and was really a cool show. Then came Scottie, had no business acumen, but was on every show then set changed to be just like Cavuto's show he did once at 6pm E. Since then show is unwatchable and not the same format. 2pm E buries it.
Also interesting how Nicole Pettallides left and Susan Li started the week after people mentioned Nicole had left. I used to for four years see Worldwide Exchange. So many changes that drove the show to ground. I saw Susan Li on the show. So familiar with her. She was the asian host who was moved to reporter at the CNBC US headquarters. But she also did Bloomberg before CNBC.

Add to that when Melissa Francis had her own show, then slid over to take over Liz Claman's spot on After The Bell.

Jackie is still doing overnights and an occasional F&FF but it looks like Carley has passed her by
I'd take Jackie over Carley ANY day, but I digress
Lea does headlines on Shep's show except for an occasional feature